| PART I. THE FRENCH BACKGROUND | |
| CHAPTER I | |
| PAGE | |
| Introduction | 3 |
| CHAPTER II | |
| Origin and Characteristics of the Salon | 16 |
| CHAPTER III | |
| The Eighteenth Century Salon | 30 |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| English Authors in Parisian Salons | 42 |
| PART II. THE ENGLISH SALON | |
| CHAPTER V | |
| The Earlier English Salon | 83 |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| Conversation Parties and Literary Assemblies | 102 |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| The Bluestocking Club | 123 |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| The London Salon | 134 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| Bluestockings as Authors | 166 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| Mrs. Montagu as a Patron of the Arts | 189 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| Results | 209 |
| PART III. THE SOCIAL SPIRIT IN ENGLISH LETTERS | |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| Johnson and the Art of Conversation | 217 |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| Walpole and the Art of Familiar Correspondence | 236 |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| Fanny Burney and the Art of the Diarist | 254 |
| CHAPTER XV | |
| Boswell and the Art of Intimate Biography | 268 |
| INDEX | 285 |